What do abortion pills look like?

These pictures show the types of products that different services typically send.

• Pills from online clinics
• Pills from other online clinics
• Pills from community networks
• Pills from websites that sell pills

Online clinics

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medications from an authorized distributor.

Other online clinics

• Generic pills that are typically manufactured in India.
• Equivalent to pills approved in the United States, but the US FDA does not oversee their production or quality.

Community networks

• Generic pills that are manufactured in India.
• Equivalent to pills approved in the United States, but the US FDA does not oversee their production or quality.
• Option to receive pills in foil blister pack or repackaged without labeling (in unmarked prescription bottle or small sealed pouch).
• Different services send different amounts of misoprostol (8, 12, or 16 tablets)

Websites that sell pills

• Generic pills that are typically manufactured in India.
• Equivalent to pills approved in the United States, but the US FDA does not oversee their production or quality.
• Sometimes inside a small cardboard box and sometimes just in foil blister packs.
• Usually, one mifepristone tablet and at least 8 misoprostol. Sometimes two packages of 5 pills (totaling 2 mifepristone and 8 misoprostol).